COLUMN: Will “We the people” of the states have the resolve to keep our freedoms?

By Allen Petty

Published: Friday, June 14, 2013 at 05:51 PM.

If you’re a real student of the history of this country and do not adhere to the fairytale and justification historian’s accounts of our country, then the whispers may becoming a little louder to you. This is not a call to arms but only a prediction of what may become reality.

From all of the 50 states petitions for successions have been filed, this is not a novelty act but rather frustration from informed caring citizens. They doubt ever being able to return the federal government back to what was envisioned by the founding fathers. These people are standing up to a federal government that has assumed powers not delegated by the states. A lot of the states to their credit are also taking a stand and refusing to enforce some of the recent federal laws that they deem unconstitutional, in essence nullifying them.

The nullification doctrine was believed in by two of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison also ascribed to by John C. Calhoun. Recently the South Carolina house passed a bill nullifying the national health care law and now it goes to their senate. Most of the states, to their credit, have refused to set up any exchanges.

Over two thirds of the states are refusing to enforce new federal gun laws, some going as far as to nullify the laws. This is two divisions of the people, here is another; Same-sex marriage is now recognized in 12 states and the ones that are advocating same-sex marriage want the federal government to legalize it thus nullifying the state laws that prohibit it in the 30 plus states that passed laws against it.

Being an advocate of state rights but strongly opposed to same-sex marriage, I recognize that states have the right to make such laws. I support the states that have laws prohibiting it and their right to if necessary nullify any federal law that challenges this.

Same-sex marriage and abortion has started the divide, the push apart will come when the federal government forces national health care and gun control on us. There will be 21 Democratic senators up for reelection in 2014, none of them are bragging about the health care law they helped to pass as they know that more people are now informed of the disastrous effect it will have on them and the companies they work for. Maybe they have learned what a lot of people are now coming to believe and that is best said by a line from the old Star trek TV series. This line was delivered by Leonard Nimoy as the Mr. Spock character. It is not logical but often true; “the having is seldom as rewarding as the wanting.”

Any free people in order to remain free must always retain the right to shake off an oppressive government. The lines have been drawn and the federal government knows this. Maybe this is their reason for more attempts to limit our access to guns and restricting magazine capacity.

If you’re a real student of the history of this country and do not adhere to the fairytale and justification historian’s accounts of our country, then the whispers may becoming a little louder to you. This is not a call to arms but only a prediction of what may become reality.

From all of the 50 states petitions for successions have been filed, this is not a novelty act but rather frustration from informed caring citizens. They doubt ever being able to return the federal government back to what was envisioned by the founding fathers. These people are standing up to a federal government that has assumed powers not delegated by the states. A lot of the states to their credit are also taking a stand and refusing to enforce some of the recent federal laws that they deem unconstitutional, in essence nullifying them.

The nullification doctrine was believed in by two of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison also ascribed to by John C. Calhoun. Recently the South Carolina house passed a bill nullifying the national health care law and now it goes to their senate. Most of the states, to their credit, have refused to set up any exchanges.

Over two thirds of the states are refusing to enforce new federal gun laws, some going as far as to nullify the laws. This is two divisions of the people, here is another; Same-sex marriage is now recognized in 12 states and the ones that are advocating same-sex marriage want the federal government to legalize it thus nullifying the state laws that prohibit it in the 30 plus states that passed laws against it.

Being an advocate of state rights but strongly opposed to same-sex marriage, I recognize that states have the right to make such laws. I support the states that have laws prohibiting it and their right to if necessary nullify any federal law that challenges this.

Same-sex marriage and abortion has started the divide, the push apart will come when the federal government forces national health care and gun control on us. There will be 21 Democratic senators up for reelection in 2014, none of them are bragging about the health care law they helped to pass as they know that more people are now informed of the disastrous effect it will have on them and the companies they work for. Maybe they have learned what a lot of people are now coming to believe and that is best said by a line from the old Star trek TV series. This line was delivered by Leonard Nimoy as the Mr. Spock character. It is not logical but often true; “the having is seldom as rewarding as the wanting.”

Any free people in order to remain free must always retain the right to shake off an oppressive government. The lines have been drawn and the federal government knows this. Maybe this is their reason for more attempts to limit our access to guns and restricting magazine capacity.

Will “We the people” of the states have the resolve to keep our freedoms? Will we stand up against an out of control federal government that uses intimidation and coercion (i.e. seizing phone records of its citizens without due process of the law, harassing organizations that speak out against the government and refusing to enforce emigration laws, etc.),to keep us subjugated to their will and denying us our freedoms?

Note of interest: 11 of the 12 states that now recognize same-sex marriage were of the union of 1861. All the confederate states of 1861 have laws prohibiting it. Also all the states of the former Confederacy, minus one, are refusing to set up national health care exchanges. Of all the states pushing back on enforcing new federal gun laws, the former confederate states are among them, (apparently we are more divided now then we were in 1861-65). Are the whispers becoming more audible now?